Here’s Wolfgang Van Halen‘s new signature guitar: The semi-hollow EVH SA-126 Special. Fun side-fact: The number 126 bears significance since Wolfgang’s dad, Eddie, named his signature guitar ‘Wolfgang’ after his son, and now his son set the model number after Eddie’s birthday, January 26th. The more you know… SA-126 is the very definition of innovation […]

This is awesome, Orange Amps just made everything on Orange Learn free for all; a website with free courses to learn guitar (mainly) but so far there’s also a vocal course too. Not only are the courses free (and the guitar courses range from debut to 1–8 in difficulty), they are also officially recognised on […]

Here’s ESP’s LTD Deluxe MH-1000NT looking quite stunning in Charcoal Burst. ESP informs us that with the MH series they’re combining design elements from the ESP H/Horizon models (like the archtop body) and from the M/Mirage guitars (inline headstock and extra thin but sturdy U-shaped neck). Other specs include: Read more at espguitars.com: LTD MH-1000NT […]

Despite having launched the affordable sub-brand S by Solar Ola Englund and Solar Guitars don’t shy away from producing more affordable Solar Guitars models as well: Here’s the carbon matte Solar AB2.6C MKII and the “Candy apple red car-gloss” Solar AB2.6CAR MKII. These metal-focused beauties feature: You can buy them directly from solarguitars.com for €622.96 […]

Blackstar just unveiled a new iteration of their line of ID:CORE practice amps: the Blackstar ID:CORE V4. These come in four different models where the differences are mainly between footswitch support (not on the smaller ones), different power and speaker sizes (10, 20 and 40 watts and 2×3″, 2×5″ or 2×6,5″ speakers) as well as […]

This doesn’t happen too often; Neural DSP is running a 50% off birthday sale on ALL their plugins. I’ve tried quite a few of them and can personally vouch for it being a pretty awesome deal (esp. Archetype Petrucci and the Soldano SLO-100 in my case). I mean, you have signature plugins like Archetype: Petrucci, […]

Here’s Human Technologies‘ Amp Driver, a hand-made guitar pedal designed to be the ‘ultimate professional boost, overdrive and distortion device’ straight from Northern Ireland. So both a high end overdrive and high end preamp in the same small box. The Amp Driver combines the very finest in perfected classic overdrive pedal design with all new […]

Sometimes small and portable is all you need to keep the practice routines going. Vox just launched the third generation of their super portable line of tiny plug n’ play mini amplifiers: amPlug 3. Now, these small little things has proven themselves before (like how they performed back when Ola Englund tried an earlier version […]

Jackson just announced the 2024 additions for their Pro Plus series, including two Randy Rhoads V’s (Randy was Jackson’s first customer after all). Pro Plus Series Rhoads RR24PSBound okoume Rhoads body with a flaming pomelle sapele top dubbed Firestorm, three piece graphite reinforced maple/walnut neck and oiled back finish, 12″-16″ compound radius ebony fretboard, stainless […]

Okay, these T-styles look angry enough: Schecter PT Black-Ops are T-style guitars available in one color and one color only: Satin Black Open Pore with, you guessed it, all blacked out details. You do get a choice when it comes to strings though since 6, 7 and 8 stringed versions are available and each is […]